Binary arithmetic circuits employing threshold gates in which both the sum and carry are obtained in one gate delay interval



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Afior/Ieq 3 Sheets-Sheet 3 R. O. WINDER BINARY 'ARITHMETIC CIRCUITSEMPLOYING THRESHOLD GATES April 14, 1970 IN WHICH BOTH THE SUM AND CARRYARE'OBTAINED IN ONE GATE DELAY INTERVAL Filed Feb. 24, 1967 UnitedStates Patent O BINARY ARITHMETEC CIRCUITS EMPLOYING THRESHOLD GATES INWHICH'BOTH THE SUM AND 'CARRY ARE OBTAINED IN ON GATE DELAY INTERVALRobert O. Winder, Trenton, N.J., assignor to RCA Corporation, acorporation of Delaware Filed Feb. 24, 1967, Ser. No. 618,508 Int. Cl.G06f 7/385 US. Cl. 235-176 8 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE Thisdisclosure relates to binary arithmetic circuits employing thresholdgates, In particular, the disclosure relates to fast binary adders andto multipliers implemented with such adders.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Threshold gates such as majority gates,minority gates, weighted input threshold gates and the like may beemployed in the design of binary adders which are simple in structureand which have other attributes. Such adders are described in HarelPatents Nos. 3,113,206, issued Dec. 3, 1963, and 3,088,668, issued May7, 1963, and in copending application Ser. No. 609,959 titled, BinaryMultipliers, filed by Mao C. Wang on or about I an. 17, 1967, andassigned to the same asignee as the present application. In all of theseadders, the carry is obtained after one or more threshold gate delayinterval and the sum is obtained after two or more threshold gate delayintervals.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The adders of the present invention have theimportant advantage that both the sum and carry are obtained in one gatedelay interval. These adders include a plurality of threshold gates,means coupled to the gates for applying thereto, in parallel, signalsindicative of a plurality of bits to be added, and means for derivingfrom the gates in one gate delay interval a first signal indicative ofthe carry of said bits and a group of signals indicative of the sum ofsaid bits.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIGURE 1 is a block circuit diagram oftwo stages of an adder circuit according to the invention;

FIGURE 2 is a block diagram of another form of adder stage according tothe invention;

FIGURE 3 is a block diagram of another form of adder stage according tothe invention;

FIGURE 4 is a block diagram of a multiplier employing the adder stagesof FIGURE 1; and

FIGURE 5 is a block diagram of a nine input adder module according tothe invention which is suitable for sequential multiplication.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The blocks making up the figure are circuits whichreceive electrical signals indicative of binary digits (bits) and whichproduce output signals indicative of bits. For the sake of brevity inthe explanation which follows, rather than speaking of the signal whichrepresents the binary digit 1 or O, the bit itself is sometimes referredto.

The circuit of FIGURE 1 comprises two adder stages shown within dashedblocks and 12, respectively. Adder stage 10 comprises two 3-inputthreshold gates 14 and 16, respectively, commonly known as majoritygates. Each such gate has a threshold of 2 and each input is assignedthe weight 1. Therefore, the value of the uncomplemented output C isequal to that of the majority of the inputs. The value of a complementedoutput, such as G, is equal to that of the minority of the inputs.

Stage 12 comprises two weighted input threshold gates 18 and 20,respectively. Each such gate has 5 inputs assigned respective weights2,2,1,1,1 and each such gate has a threshold of 4. Weighted gates ofthis type are discussed in the copending Wang application above andcircuits for implementing such gates are discussed in the referencescited in the Wang application. In such gates, a signal applied to aweight 2 input terminal has twice as much effect on the operation .ofthe gate as a signal applied to a weight 1 input terminal thereof.

Before discussing the operation of the circuit of FIGURE 1, it may be inorder at this point to discuss binary arithmetic generally. Table Ibelow is the truth table for the addition of a group of binary digits.It shows, for example, that when there is an odd number of ones in thegroup of bits being added to one another, the sum is a l and when thereis an even number of ones, the sum is a 0. It also shows that when twoor more of the bits being added have the value 1, the first carry C is a1 and when four or more of the bits being added have the value 1, thenthe second carry is also a 1. For greater numbers of inputs of valueone, there are additional carries (six ones requires three carries,eight requires four carries and so on).

TABLE I N umber of Input ls S C C,

Returning to FIGURE 1, stage 10 can be shown to be a 3-input adder(sometimes known as a full adder) where x x x are the three hits beingadded and 5 is the complement of x It can be seen byinspection that whentwo or three of these bits have the value 1, C, the output of majoritygate 14, is a 1 as it should be. The output of stage 16, that is D, isequal to 1 when the majority of x 5 and x are 1.

The sum output S of the circuit is represented by the three signals C, xand D which appear on three separate wires. This sum S is generatedconcurrently with the carry C in one delay interval and its value isdefined by the equation S=Maj(C,x ,D). In other words, S is 1 only when2 or 3 of C, x and D have the value 1 and is 0 only when two or three ofthese same bits have the value 0.

The truth table defining the operation of the stage 10 is:

TABLE II Z0 I1 .122 C D S O. 0 O O O 0 U. 0 1 0 l 1 (L 1 0 0 0 1 0. l l1 O O 1. 0 U 0 1 1 l. U 1 1 1 0 l. 1 0 I 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 directlywithout any necessity for decoding. In such circuits the adders of theinvention are twice as fast as the fastest ones of the references,assuming the use of threshold gates of comparable speeds.

Stage 12 of FIGURE 1 is one example of a circuit which employs the threesignals indicative of a sum directly. These three signals O, x and D areapplied in parallel to the three weight 1 input terminals of gates 18and 20, respectively. These three signals represent one bit. The secondbit applied to stage 12 is x;., and its complement and the third bitapplied to stage 12 is x.;. The x and x bits are applied to the twoweight 2 input terminals, respectively, of gate 18; the 53 and in, bitsare applied to the two weight 2 input terminals, respectively, of gate20. It might be mentioned here, as an aside, that a bit and itscomplement, when needed, are generally concurrently available in dataprocessing systems. For example, in a conventional machine, they may bepresent at the 1 and 0 output terminals of a register stage. In athreshold gate machine, the bit and its complement may be available atthe two output terminals of a threshold gate logic and/ or storagestage.

The operation of stage 12 is given in Table III below. It may beobserved from the table that the carry output C is obtained in one gatedelay interval after the inputs are applied to stage 12 and that the sumoutput 8,, again consisting of signals on three separate wires, is alsoobtained in one stage delay. As in the case of the sum output of stage10, the sum output of stage 12 is TABLE III S :6 M C, D 8,,

O. 0 0 0 0 0 0"... 0 1 O 1 1 0. 1 0 0 O 1 0 1 1 1 0 O 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 11 1 0 1... I 0 1 0 0 1 1 l 1 1 l The correctness of the operation ofstage 12 of FIG- URE 1 readily may be checked by comparing Table IIIwith Table I. For example, line 1 of Table III indicates that S,, is 0when S is 0 and x and x are both 0. S is 0 only when an even number 0 or2 of the bits x x x have the value 1. In either of these cases, if bothx and x are 0, then there still is an even number of the five bits xx.,, which have the value 1 so that S should be 0. The same analysisholds for line 4 of Table III, since if both x and x are 1 and there arealready an even number of ones in x x then there still is an even numberof ones. As one final example, line 2 of the table indicates that if xis a 1 and x is a O and S is a 0, then S is a 1. This is correct sincewhen S is a 0 there is an even number of ones present among x x and ifan odd number of ones (only x =1) is added to this then the result mustbe an odd number of ones so that S must be 1. A similar analysis may bemade to show that the values given for the carries are also correct.

Another form of 3-input adder according to the invention is shown inFIGURE 2. This adder consists of three gates 22, 24 and 26. Gate 22 is aS-input majority gate and gates 24 and 26 are each 6-input gates withinput weights 2,1,l,1,1,1 and with a threshold of 4.

The adder of FIGURE 2 like the adder stage 12 of FIGURE 1 adds threebits. One of the bits is represented by the code A A A appearing onthree separate wires. If these three wires together carry a single 1,this represents the bit 0. If the three wires together carry two ls,this represents the bit 1. In this particular circuit, the condition ofno ls or three ls never occurs. The second bit applied to the circuit ofFIGURE 2 is x and the third bit is x In addition to these inputs, thegate 2-4 receives a constant bias of 0 applied to a weight 2 inputterminal 4 thereof and gate 26 receives a constant bias of 1 at itsweight 2 input terminal.

The operation of the circuit of FIGURE 2 is given in Table IV below.

TABLE IV Number of ls from Number 01' previous s in m stage xi xi 1 0 AA a A a output S 0 or 0--. 1 0 O 0 0 1 1 0 0. 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 l O- 1 1 00 0 1 1 2 1 0 1 l 1 l 0 0 1 l 0 1 2 0 0 U U 1 1 2 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 0 1 10 1. 2 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 l 1 1 0 1 2 l A comparison of Table IV withTable I will show that the circuit does in fact perform 3-bit addition.Gate 22 generates the carry bit and the sum bit is represented by thesignals A A and A appearing on three separate wires. As in the case ofthe input, when solely one of the three wires carries the bit 1, thisrepresents the sum of 0 and when solely two of the wires carry the bit1, this represents the sum of 1. Also, as in the case of the input, theconditions in which none of these three output wires carry a 1 or allthree carry a 1 never exist.

The adder of FIGURE 2 is more complex than stage 12 of FIGURE 1 in thatit requires three threshold gates rather than 2. However, the principlesemployed to design the adder of FIGURE 2 may be applied to the design offour or higher number of input adders. One such circuit is shown inFIGURE 3. This circuit includes four threshold gates 28, 30, 32 and 34,respectively. Gates 30 and 34 are 8 input threshold gates with inputweights 2,1,l,1,l,l,1,l, and a threshold of 5; gate 28 is an 8 inputthreshold gate with input weights 4,1,l,l,l,l,l,l, and a threshold of 6;and gate 32 is a 7 input majority gate. Gate 28 has an O bias applied tothe weight 4 input terminal thereof; gate 30 has a 0 bias applied to theweight 2 input terminal thereof; gate 34 has a l bias applied to theweight 2 input terminal thereof.

The adder of FIGURE 3 adds four bits. The first bit A consists of thesignals appearing on four separate input lines and the second, third andfourth bits are B, D and B, respectively. The coding of bit A is suchthat when solely two of the wires carry 1, the bit represented is a 0and when solely three of the wires carry a 1, the bit represented is al. The conditions when exactly 0, exactly 1 or exactly four ls arepresent on the four wires do not occur in this circuit. In a similarmanner, the output sum bit produced is represented by an analogous codeon the four output wires legend A,,. As there are four input hits, twoseparate carries are possible. When two or more of the input bits havethe value 1, C is a l and when all four of the input bits have the value1, then C is also a 1.

The concepts made use of in the design of the three and four bitcircuits of FIGURES 2 and 3 are also applicable to the design ofcircuits having more than four input bits. In such circuits, n thresholdgates are needed for n input bits.

One input, as well as the output, is encoded on n lines, where the value0 is denoted by the presence of [n/ 2] ls on the group of lines ([x] isthe largest integer no greater than x), and value 1 is represented bythe presence of ([n/ 21+1) ls on the group of wires. No other casesoccur. The bundle of 11 inputs, along with n1 additional inputsrepresentative of the other n--l input bits to the adder are appliedwith weight 1 to each gate. In addition, the first gate of the n(counting from the left, say) has a bias signal 0 applied with weight 2[11/2], the next with weight 2 [n/2]2, and so, until the ([n/2]+1)stgate, which has no bias input, then the ([n/2]+2)nd gate has a bias 1applied with weight 2, the next gate has bias 1 applied with weight 4,and so on to the nth gate which has bias 1 applied with weight 2n-2[n/2]2.

TABLEV 12 111 11a 0112 11 101/0 0 1 11 11/1 W0 1 2M W1 are 2 C C4 C C2In the operation depicted in Table V, the circuit obtains a logicalproduct of x and y and this is the final product bit of leastsignificance S The circuit obtains the logical products of x and y, andthe logical product of x and y and adds these two quantities directly toobtain the final product bit S of next significance and a carry bit Cand so on.

The circuit of FIGURE 4, which employs the adder stages of FIGURE 1,performs the 3 by 3 multiplication described in Table IV above and doesso in fewer stage delays than the Wang multiplier. It does so becauseeach adder generates a sum in only one stage delay rather than the tworequired in the Wang circuit. (The saving in time relative to the Wangmultiplier increases as the number of bits in the operands increase.)

In the operation of the multiplier of FIGURE 4, the bits x y are appliedto AND gate 30 to obtain the first final product bit S AND gate 31obtains the logical product of zo of x and y and AND gate 32 obtains thelogical product z; and its complement of the bits x and y Note that in apreferred form of the invention the AND gates are implemented bythreshold gates as indicated in the legend.

The adder a corresponds to stage 10 of FIGURE 1. It receives the bit zand the bit Z and its complement Z2 and receives as a third input theconstant bias 0. It readily can be shown that when the third bit appliedto the adder 10a is a O, the adder does add the remaining two bits itreceives (it operates as a half adder). The adder produces a carry C anda sum which is represented by the coding on three separate wires. Thesethree wires are represented schematically in FIGURE 4 by the line 34with short diagonals intersecting it. The 3-input majority gate 35produces the final product bit S of next significance.

The adder 10b receives the bits Z1 and Z3 where z =x y and z =x y The3-input adder 12a, which corresponds to adder stage 12 of FIGURE 1, addsthe three bits C Z6, where z =x y and the sum bit produced by the twobit adder 10b. The sum bit is present in coded form on the three wires38. The 3-bit adder 12a produces an output carry C and an output sum bitrepresented by the coding on three wires 40. Majority gate42 producesthe final product bit S of next significance.

The remainder of the operation of the circuit of FIGURE 4 should beclear from the discussion up to this point. Reference may also be madeto the copending Wang application in this connection.

Additional time may be saved in performing a multiplication byemploying, rather than 3-input adders 4, 5 or higher number of bitadders. For example, adders of the class shown in FIGURES 2 and 3 may beused throughout in the design of a multiplier of the type shown inFIGURE 4. An adder such as shown in FIGURE 3 may advantageously beemployed to add in one stage delay the four bits needed to obtain thebit S and also the four hits needed to obtain the bit S for example, andthis would speed up the circuit. A S-input majority gate, with one inputfixed at 0, would be used to decode the outputs of these adders.However, the higher number of bit adders employ gates with greaterfan-ins and, as pointed out in the Wang application, this makes thetolerance problem more severe. It is also possible in the multipliers ofthe present application to perform some of the logical productcalculations within the adders, as in the Wang application, to speed upthe operation still further.

FIGURE 5 shows a module consisting of 8 interconnected threshold gateswhich is suitable for adding 9 bits to one another. A module of thistype is useful, for example, in the multiplier of the Wang applicationabove. It also is useful as a stage in a sequential multiplier of thetype described in FIGURE 16 of copending application Ser. No. 567,344,titled, Threshold Gates and Circuits, filed July 13, 1966, by thepresent inventor.

The circuit of FIGURE 5 includes 8 threshold gates. Six of the gates 50,51, 54, 55, 56 and 57 are S-input 2,2,1,1,1 gates with a threshold of 4.Gate 52 is a 3-input majority gate. Gate 53 is a 4-input 2,1,1,1 gatewith a threshold of 3. The pairs of gates (gates 50 and 51), 120a (gates54 and 55), and 12% (gates 56 and 57) correspond to the adder stage 12of FIGURE 1. Each such pair of gates receives a sum bit consisting ofsignals on three separate wires and two other bits. The remaining adderstage comprises gates 52 and 53 and this stage receives three input bitsP P and P each on a single wire, and produces a sum output S and a carryoutput C and their respective complements. This adder stage 52, 53produces the sum in two gate delay intervals, however, no time is lostsince the sum bit S is not needed earlier, as should be evident fromobservation. This adder is employed in this particular configuration asit is convenient here to handle a sum bit appearing on a single wirerather than one which is in coded form on three wires.

The circuit of FIGURE 5 adds the following 9 bits: S (which has thevalue 1 when two or more of the three bits A A A have the value 1), C PP P P C, C, and C In one particular application of the circuit, Pthrough R, are logical product bits. C C, C and C are carry bitsproduced by preceding circuits and S is an encoded sum bit produced in apreceding circuit. The circuit of FIGURE 5 produces as outputs anencoded sum bit S which again has the value 1 when two of the three bitsA A A have the value 1 and four carry bits C C Cm), C

In the operation of the circuit of FIGURE 5, the threshold gate pair 120adds together S P and C and produces an output carry bit C and anencoded sum bit 8,. The threshold gate pair 120a adds together theencoded sum bit S and the two carry bits C and C and produces an outputcarry bit C and an encoded output sum bit S The pair of gates 52, 53 addtogether the three bits P P P and produce an output carry bit C and anoutput sum bit S The gate pair 1201) adds together the encoded sum bit Sthe single sum bit S and the third input carry bit C to produce anencoded sum bit S which is the sum of all 9 input bits to the circuit ofFIGURE 5 and also produces the fourth output carry bit C As in the othercircuits of the present application, the circuit of FIGURE 5 has theimportant advantage that it is of very high speed. The 9-input bits areadded together in only. three threshold gate delay intervals, In oneapplication, the input carries C, C, and C occur during three successivedelay intervals and therefore the circuit speed, in terms of numbers ofgate delay intervals, is optimal. Moreover, the circuit is relativelysimple in that it employs only 8 gates of which 6 are identical.

With minor circuit redesign, a 9-input adder similar to the one ofFIGURE 5 can be designed using all identical threshold gates. It is alsopossible, with minor circuit modification, to provide adders inaccordance with the present invention which add a greater or lessernumber of bits than 9. As one simple example, with the gates 52 and 53eliminated the circuit of FIGURE becomes a 7- input adder which employsonly six threshold gates, all identical.

While for purposes of convenience the various gates with permanentbiases of the circuits of this invention are shown to have inputterminals to which these biases are applied, it is to be understood thatsuch bias terminals need not be brought out to the outside world and infact need not even be physically present. To illustrate, a S-input1,1,1,1,1 threshold gate with no bias and with a threshold of 2 is thelogical equivalent of the 6-input 2,1,1,1,1,1 threshold gate 26 ofFIGURE 2 which has a threshold of 4 with a permanent bias 1 applied tothe weight 2 input terminal thereof. As another example, a S-input1,1,1,1,1 threshold gate with no bias and a threshold of 4 is thelogical equivalent of the 7-input gate 24 of FIGURE 2 of input weights2,1,1,1,1,1,1 having a threshold of 4 and a permanent bias of 0 appliedto the weight 2 input terminal thereof. Many other logical equivalentsare also possible for the above and other of the gates shown, asunderstood by those skilled in this art, and it is intended that theclaims cover such equivalents.

What is claimed is:

1. A threshold gate adder comprising:

a plurality of threshold gates;

input means coupled to said gates for applying thereto,

in parallel, signals indicative of a plurality of bits to be added;

means for deriving from said gates in one gate delay intervals a firstsignal indicative of a carrying of said bits and a group of signalsindicative of the sum of said bits;

means providing a plurality of signals indicative of other bits; and

means including a second plurality of threshold gates receptive of saidgroup of signals indicative of the sum of said bits and said signalsindicative of other bits for producing, in one gate delay interval, agroup of signals indicative of the sum of the bit represented by saidgroup of signals and said other bits.

2. A threshold gate adder as set forth in claim 1, wherein said inputmeans applies to one of said gates as an input indicative of one of saidbits a group of signals indicative of said one bit.

3. A threshold gate adder as set forth in claim 1, wherein saidplurality of threshold gates consists of two 3-input gates, each inputof weight 1, and each gate having a threshold of 2; wherein said meanscoupled to said gates applies signals indicative of two bits to bothgates, a signal indicative of a third bit to the first of said gates anda signal indicative of the complement of the third bit to the second ofsaid gates; and wherein said last-named means comprises an outputterminal at said first gate at which a signal indicative of the majorityfunction is obtained, said signal comprising said carry signal, andleads carrying a group of signals indicative of the sum of said bits,said group consisting of a first signal derived from said first gateindicative of the minority function, a second signal which is the signalindicative of said third bit applied to said first gate, and a thirdsignalderived from said second gate indicative of the majority function.

4. A threshold gate added as set forth in claim 1, wherein saidplurality of threshold gates consists of two S-input threshold gateswith inputs of respective weights 2,2,1,1,1 and each such gate having athreshold of 4.

5. A threshold gate adder as set forth in claim 1, wherein saidplurality of threshold gates consists of threethresh old gates, thefirst a S-input gate each input of weight 1 and having a threshold of 3,and the second and third each 6-input gates with input weights2,1,1,1,1,1 and hav ing a threshold of 4.

6. A threshold gate adder as set forth in claim 1, wherein saidplurality of threshold gates consists of 4 threshold gates, the first a7-input gate each input of weight 1; the second an S-input thresholdgate of input weights 4,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 and having a threshold of 6, andthe third and fourth each 8-input threshold gates of input weights2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 and having a threshold of 5.

7. A threshold gate adder stage comprising:

two S-input threshold gates having input weights of 2,2,1,1,1respectively and a threshold of 4;

means for applying a group of three signals indicative of a first bit tothe three weight 1 input terminals of each gate, respectively;

means for applying a signal indicative of a second bit to a weight 2input terminal of each gate, respectively;

means for applying a signal indicative of a third bit to the remainingweight 2 input terminal of the first gate and a signal indicative of thecomplement of said third bit to the remaining weight 2 input terminal ofthe second gate; and

means for deriving from said two gates an output indicative of the sumof the three bits represented by signals applied to the two gatescomprising: three signal leads, one from the first gate at which asignal indicative of the bit 1 appears only when the threshold of thefirst gate is not reached, the second from the weight 2 input terminalof the first gate which receives the third bit, and the third from thesecond gate on which a signal indicative of the bit 1 appears only whenthe threshold of the second gate is reached.

8. In a threshold gate adder:

a first plurality of threshold gates;

means coupled to said gates for applying thereto, in parallel, signalsindicative of a plurality of bits to be added;

means for deriving from said gates in one gate delay interval a firstsignal indicative of the carry of said bits and a group of signalsindicative of the sum of said bits;

a second plurality of threshold gates, each connected to receive saidgroup of signals indicative of the sum of said bits;

means for applying to said second plurality of threshold gates, inparallel, a plurality of signals indicative of bits to be added to saidsum; and

means for deriving from said second plurality of gates, in one gatedelay interval, a signal indicative of a carry and a group of signalsindicative of the sum of the bits represented by the signals applied tosaid second plurality of threshold gates.

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EUGENE G. BOTZ, Primary Examiner I. F. RUGGIERO, Assistant Examiner

